Tokyo: - Ushigome Ku,
Ichigaya,
Tomihisacho 21
Oct. 13th '76
Dear Mr. Scudder: -
In sending you the
Nirvana paper I had not
the faintest possible idea
that you could ever think
of using it for the Atlantic.
It was for a book, of
course.  I am not quite
sure how The Monist would
treat it typographically:  so
much depends, it seems to
me, on the artistic printing
of such a paper.  The re-
muneration would not be
a question to bargain over:
besides, I believe that the
price paid by such journal
as the Open Court and
The Monist are merely
nominal.  But in reply
to your kind suggestion,
I shall only say, "Please
do whatever you think
proper, providing only that





the paper be decently printed.
I hope if you print
"Dust" (and thanks for kind
words about it!), that you
will not forget those little
ideographs.  To omit them
would, I think, weaken
the effect intended.
I have MS. enough
in my drawer; but alas,
all condemned!  There is
something wrong with them.
Perhaps I shall be able
later to nurse one or two
with life;  but I do not
intend to send you any-
thing more that I do
not feel perfectly sure of,
after waiting to let the
first glow of satisfaction
fade out.  Perhaps I
may manage to have a
volume finished in time
for publication next fall; - that would mean
MS. all ready by spring.
Faithfully,
Lafcadio Hearn
Y. Koizumi